[RFT PATCH v5 0/3] Add compressed Image booting support

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Fri Mar 27 20:41:15 CET 2020


On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:58:12AM -0700, Atish Patra wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 4:25 PM Atish Patra <atish.patra at wdc.com> wrote:
> >
> > This patch series extends booti to support compressed images
> > as well. Following compressed images are supported for now.
> >
> > lzma, lzo, bzip2, gz.
> >
> > Other compression methods can easily be supported if required.
> > The above compression methods are common ones that Linux kernel
> > (ARM64/RISC-V) and U-Boot supports.
> >
> > Changes from v4->v5
> > 1. Moved back to explicit kernel_comp_size enviornemnt variable
> > from filesize.
> > 2. Rebased on top latest master.
> >
> > Changes from v3->v4
> > 1. Removed CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN usage.
> >
> > Atish Patra (3):
> > lib: kconfig: Add option to set BZIP2 compression method
> > image: Add a common compression type detection function.
> > image: Add compressed Image parsing support in booti.
> >
> > cmd/booti.c                | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > common/image.c             | 23 ++++++++++++++++
> > doc/README.distro          | 12 +++++++++
> > doc/board/sifive/fu540.rst | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > include/image.h            | 21 +++++++++++++++
> > lib/Kconfig                |  5 ++++
> > 6 files changed, 155 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > --
> > 2.24.0
> >
> 
> The series is not in master yet. I am not sure about the merge window
> cycle for U-Boot.
> I am assuming nothing else is required for this series to go in.
> Please let  me know otherwise.
> 
> The patchwork shows it is delegated to Tom. I guess it will end up in
> master in sometime before the next release.
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/list/?submitter=74477

It won't be in v2020.04, but it should be in v2020.07, I'll likely pull
it to -next soon.  Thanks again!

-- 
Tom
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